On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:21:54PM +0100, WUEBBELS, Josef (Extern) wrote:
> > Why we need this patch? I think that locally running syslogd
> > is able to redirect the logs to remote syslog server.
>
> Of course, for normal operations using syslogd is the best way.
> But there a also several occasions where this patch is quite useful:
> Personally I find it quite useful for checking remote syslog servers by
> sending a short test message because I do not have to setup syslogd each
> time.
> In our environment we use it because we also have a lot of standardized
> servers which we do not want to reconfigure very often (would be a real
> pain). On these servers a lot of unprivileged users run custom
> applications and self-made shell scripts. Thus this patch is a low
> effort way to allow these users to log messages to their central syslog
> servers.
OK, I'll apply the patch after v2.19 release. It's too invasive for
now.
> >
> > The patch looks fine to me, but it'd be nice to have an update to
> > logger.8 man page too.
>
> sorry, here it is:
> --- a/misc-utils/logger.1 2010-05-19 23:36:23.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/misc-utils/logger.1 2011-02-08 07:36:18.222200561 +0100
[...]
Thanks for the man page update.
Karel
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